{"id":6674,"date":"2021-11-19T05:23:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T05:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:03:50","slug":"films-this-week-11-19-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newplazacinema.org\/test_area\/films-this-week-11-19-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Films This Week 11\/19\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"This coming week may well be the most dramatic of the 2021 movie year with the theatrical releases of Jane Campion\u2019s The Power of the Dog<\/em>,\u00a0King Richard (<\/em>with Will Smith,\u00a0Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s Licorice Pizza,<\/em> and Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi\u2019s Cannes prize-winner,\u00a0Drive My Car<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s previous film Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy<\/strong><\/a><\/em> (lauded at this year’s Berlin Film Festival) \u00a0joins our Virtual Cinema lineup today. In three separate episodes, this rising auteur explores the romantic trajectories\u00a0of young men and women with dialogue and precise staging that recall such masters as France’s Eric Rohmer and Korea’s Hong Sang-soo.<\/p>\n

In her NY Times<\/em>\u00a0“Critic’s Pick,” my friend Manohla Dargis \u2014 always a perceptive observer of modern Asian cinema \u2014 writes:<\/p>\n

“<\/strong>Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy<\/strong><\/a><\/em> is a perfect entry point into Hamaguchi\u2019s work. Not every episode works equally well or hits as hard, but both times I watched this movie, I found something to admire, consider, argue with and weep over. The three stories are clearly separated with coy or cryptic or plainly descriptive titles. They have separate casts and each takes place in contemporary settings, though one has a modest, somewhat random splash of speculative fiction. Here, as in life, the most blandly familiar spaces \u2014 the back seat of a cab, a cluttered office, a living room \u2014 serve as unadorned stages for ordinary, existence-defining encounters.”<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Here’s an opportunity to catch the emergence of a new talent on the international cinema stage. His forthcoming Drive My Car<\/em> is Japan’s submission for Best International Film at the 2022 Academy Awards, and his work is certain to be seen further on NYC art house screens…<\/p>\n

Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New Plaza Cinema<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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